167 XXV. AGAIN A PRISONER. 176 XXVI. THE WILD RANGE RIDERS. 181 XXVII. AGAIN ON THE TRAIL. 189 XXVIII. THE CAPTURE OF THE MEDICINE MAN. 194 XXIX. THE COMING OF THE MEDICINE MAN. 201 XXX. THE DEFEAT OF THE BLACKFEET. 210 XXXI. RINGED IN BY FIRE. 215 XXXII. THE GIRL AND THE EMERALDS. 222 XXXIII. THE EAVESDROPPER. 228 XXXIV. THE MUSTANG CATCHERS. 235 XXXV. THE ATTACK ON THE STAGE. 243 XXXVI. DISAPPOINTED ROAD AGENTS. 251 XXXVII. SETTING A TRAP. 256 XXXVIII. A CAPTURE AND AN ESCAPE. 260 XXXIX. THE EMERALDS GONE. 270 XL. CODY AND NOMAD. 275 XLI. THE OUTLAWS TRICKED. 283 XLII. A ROUGH DIPLOMAT. 288 XLIII. A WHIRLWIND CHASE. 293 XLIV. LAWLESS STRATEGY. 298 XLV. A SNEAKING COWARD. 305 XLVI. THE CAPTURE OF THE THIEF. 311 XLVII. AT BAY--AT PEACE. 316 IN APPRECIATION OF WILLIAM F. CODY (BUFFALO BILL). It is now some generations since Josh Billings, Ned Buntline, and Colonel Prentiss Ingraham, intimate friends of Colonel William F. Cody, used to forgather in the office of Francis S. Smith, then proprietor of the _New York Weekly_. It was a dingy little office on Rose Street, New York, but the breath of the great outdoors stirred there when these old-timers got together. As a result of these conversations, Colonel Ingraham and Ned Buntline began to write of the adventures of Buffalo Bill for Street & Smith. Colonel Cody was born in Scott County, Iowa, February 26, 1846. Before he had reached his teens, his father, Isaac Cody, with his mother and two sisters, migrated to Kansas, which at that time was little more than a wilderness. When the elder Cody was killed shortly afterward in the Kansas “Border War,” young Bill assumed the difficult rôle of family breadwinner. During 1860, and until the outbreak of the Civil War, Cody lived the arduous life of a pony-express rider. Cody volunteered his services as government scout and guide and served throughout the Civil War with Generals McNeil and A. J. Smith. He was a distinguished member of the Seventh Kansas Cavalry.